A Sustainable Development Goals champion Kehinde Akinsola has said to confront the issues of climate change and biodiversity loss, Nigeria requires a stronger commitment to collaborative action.
Akinsola, Kwara State Champion, Nigeria Youth SDGs Network stated this in Ilorin, Kwara state capital while speaking with newsmen on the sideline of CoP27 Youth Leadership Workshop.
According to him “young people have the ability to address these issues that are currently destroying our country in terms of participation in policy discussions and implementation frameworks are critical. We believe youths have the ability to drive the dramatic change that our future requires in terms of how we live and work and solutions on how to handle the challenges of climate change, pollution, flood, and biodiversity loss while scaling up effective change.
The solution to climate change lies within our Earth, within our minds and within our capacities, so let’s come together to take tangible steps to prepare and respond to the greatest threat to humanity” he said.
Akinsola who opined that hosting of COP27 in the green city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt this year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change submitted that “In thirty years , the world has come a long way in the fight against climate change and its negative impacts on our planet; we are now able to better understand the science behind climate change, better assess its impacts, and better develop tools to address its causes and consequences”.
In her Keynote Address Honorable Commissioner for Environment in Kwara state Remilekun Banigbe called for the involvement of Nigerians in tackling climate change in their communities adding that the youths should make conscious efforts for their future quality of life which is being undermined.
She canvassed the need to “identify how climate impacts communities, conceptualize sustainable solution, identify plan of action, adopt a self-help approach, identify resources constraint for sustainable implementation and seek funding as parts of ways to cope with the present-day reality”.
The COP27 Youth Leadership Workshop held simultaneously in Adamawa state, Kaduna state, Rivers state, Anambra state and Ondo state with a view that participants can better understand environmental issues ,environmental justice and can lead environmental and climate issues in their community .
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